Glossary:

1. ​Attraction​: A natural or man made facility, location, or activity which offers items of
specific interest to tourists.

2. ​Domestic tourism​: Comprises the activities of a resident visitor within the country of
reference, either as part of a domestic tourism trip or part of an outbound tourism trip (IRTS
2008, 2.39).
3. ​Excursionist​: It is classified as a same-day visitor, if his/her trip does not include an
overnight stay.
4. ​Host community​: The residents of a town, area, or nation who are influenced by the
presence of tourists and who serve officially or accidentally as hosts by sharing their land,
facilities, highways, and culture with tourists.
5. ​Inbound tourism​: Inbound tourism comprises the activities of a non-resident visitor within
the country of reference on an inbound tourism trip
6. -​Resident​: The residents of a country are individuals whose centre of predominant
economic interest is located in its economic territory.
-​Non-residents​: For a country, the non-residents are individuals whose centre of
predominant economic interest is located outside its economic territory.
7. ​Mass tourism​: Contemporary tendency to create mass demand for specific locations or
experiences, as well as the accommodations and transportation to serve such demand.
8. ​Tourist infrastructure​: In a general sense, infrastructure applies to the physical
necessities that must be supplied to tourists. This includes roads, electricity, water,
telephone, airports and so on.
9. ​Tourism receipts​: Amount of money spent by tourists in a given area during a specific
time period.
10. ​Tourism arrivals​ : refers to the number of arrivals - not to the number of persons. The
same person who makes several trips to a given country during a given period will be
counted as a new arrival each time, as well as a person who travels through several
countries on one trip is counted as a new arrival each time.
11. ​Tourism expenditures​: Tourism expenditure refers to the amount paid for the
acquisition of consumption goods and services, as well as valuables, for own use or to give
away, for and during tourism trips. It includes expenditures by visitors themselves, as well as
expenses that are paid for or reimbursed by others.
12. ​International tourism​: Internal tourism comprises domestic tourism and inbound
tourism, that is to say, the activities of resident and non-resident visitors within the country of
reference as part of domestic or international tourism trips.
13. ​Seasonality​: Change in the level and composition of tourism demand due to the time of
the year. Seasons may be defined in terms of months or of groups of consecutive months
with similar climatic conditions.
14. ​Suppliers​: One who offers the products or services as sold through the travel retailers
or in some cases directly with the public.
15. ​Outbound tourism​: Outbound tourism comprises the activities of a resident visitor
outside the country of reference, either as part of an outbound tourism trip or as part of a
domestic tourism trip.
16. ​Tourism​: comprises the activities of people traveling to and staying in places outside
their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and
other purposes.
17. ​Tourist​: A visitor (domestic, inbound or outbound) is classified as a tourist (or overnight
visitor), if his/her trip includes an overnight stay, or as a same-day visitor (or excursionist)
otherwise.
18. ​Tourism Supply and demand​:
-​Supply​: result of productive activities that involve the provision of goods and services
required to meet tourism demand and which are expressed in tourism consumption.
-​Demand​: Quantity of tourism goods or services that buyers are ready to buy at a specified
price in a given market at a given time.
19. ​Tourism flows​: refers to the statistical measure of the volume and direction of
movement of tourists into or out of a destination for a given period of time or as a trend.
20. ​Tourist patrimony (Heritage)​: is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes
of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and
bestowed for the benefit of future generations. Cultural heritage includes tangible culture,
intangible culture and natural heritage.
21. ​Tourism market​: is where flow the supply and demand of tourism products and
services. A tourist market consists of buyers and sellers. Vendors offer different kinds of
products and services that can be adjusted to different needs and reasons for purchase of
buyers.
22. ​National tourism​: is the tourism of resident visitors, within and outside the economic
territory of the country of reference.
23. ​Tourism superstructure: ​Tourism facilities such as hotels, restaurants and attractions.
24. ​Tourist services​: Services are actions done to achieve the solution to a need. Tourism
is the activity that an individual develops when, with purpose of leisure, goes to a different
location; in short, tourist services are not more than actions to achieve the tourist's
satisfaction, comfort and convenience.
25. ​Tourism quality standards​: Quality standards could be defined as the level of quantity,
quality and facilities that are offered to a tourist in order to achieve the highest level of
satisfaction.

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